http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/keep-the-bfi-library-together-and-accessible.html Online petition signatures en-us Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:01 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9614469?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:41:24 UTC 9614469 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9602410?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:06:05 UTC 9602410 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9599582?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:18:50 UTC 9599582 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9599575?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:17:47 UTC 9599575 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9589578?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Feb 2011 04:06:32 UTC 9589578 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9573513?utm_medium=rss The BFI Library is used by academics and students from all over the UK, and from overseas. It best fulfils this national and international role from a central London location. The proposal to split the collection makes no sense, from either a scholarly or a practical point of view.

]]> Tue, 8 Feb 2011 02:44:24 UTC 9573513 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9572117?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:47:40 UTC 9572117 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9561910?utm_medium=rss The BFI library is a valuable resource. It was of crucial importance during my studies and remains a place where its value can not be understated. It must be protected!

]]> Mon, 7 Feb 2011 11:05:46 UTC 9561910 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9548231?utm_medium=rss I visited the BFI library last year and was impressed with the staff's knowledge and helpful attitude.
The location is ideal for so many film lovers who work or visit London.
I strongly endorse my view that redundancies should be reconsidered and the present location should remain is use.
Thank you.

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]]> Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:17:25 UTC 9498088 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9493925?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Feb 2011 06:12:21 UTC 9493925 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9485417?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:51:28 UTC 9485417 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9484763?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:00:36 UTC 9484763 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9484454?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:36:25 UTC 9484454 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9483749?utm_medium=rss Resources are needed

]]> Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:45:21 UTC 9483749 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9478372?utm_medium=rss Good and easy public access to the resources of the BFI should be a fundamental policy at the publicly owned BFI

]]> Wed, 2 Feb 2011 05:21:48 UTC 9478372 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9476284?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 03:09:13 UTC 9476284 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9475007?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:27:14 UTC 9475007 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9474866?utm_medium=rss To researchers outside of London, the central location of the BFI Library is paramount to research efficiency. I would rather the library membership was raised (given how low it is) than the library moved.

]]> Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:15:04 UTC 9474866 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9474205?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:07:17 UTC 9474205 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9473434?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:00:25 UTC 9473434 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9471623?utm_medium=rss I cannot imagine that this library on Stephens Street that I have used since 1982 is being relocated. I strongly protest the plans to relocate this amazing collection and staff to what appears to be a non-research site.

]]> Tue, 1 Feb 2011 04:02:29 UTC 9471623 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9466277?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:51:44 UTC 9466277 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9463589?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:02:24 UTC 9463589 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9462563?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:56:33 UTC 9462563 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9460836?utm_medium=rss The library and information department is one of the glories of the BFI - to break them up would be a grave mistake

]]> Tue, 1 Feb 2011 04:11:47 UTC 9460836 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9457972?utm_medium=rss The BFI is crucial to both British and international film research. Please keep it in London where the materials can be found and used!

]]> Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:09:45 UTC 9457972 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9457687?utm_medium=rss The world's future filmmakers would be at a complete disservice without access to such a wonderful library. We must know what has gone before in order to progress and continue moving forward as artists.

]]> Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:20:31 UTC 9457687 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9456721?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:03:10 UTC 9456721 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9453343?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:32:08 UTC 9453343 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9448759?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:29:01 UTC 9448759 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9447982?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:44:05 UTC 9447982 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9447764?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:29:44 UTC 9447764 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9441796?utm_medium=rss Film criticism must survive, and the dissolution of the BFI Library would be an incalculable loss in accomplishing that end.

]]> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:59:43 UTC 9441796 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9440214?utm_medium=rss To pretend this policy is anything but ideological is insulting. This is an important - no, vital - resource for everyone to do with the moving image.

]]> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:48:37 UTC 9440214 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9439921?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:05:11 UTC 9439921 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9439878?utm_medium=rss The BFI Library is essential to my teaching and research and to that of my students and graduate students. It makes a vast contribution to the work of those who respect film and television culture. It helps us teach people who can think critically about moving image culture. Please keep this amazing library in central London in its current form!

]]> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:59:51 UTC 9439878 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9439745?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:41:59 UTC 9439745 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9439734?utm_medium=rss Without the BFI library I would not have been able to study so well for my postgraduate degree and gain a distinction. This is a valuable resource

]]> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:39:45 UTC 9439734 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9439667?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:31:39 UTC 9439667 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9439360?utm_medium=rss The facilities at Stephen St are a unique and valuable resource for researchers and users. The staff are incredibly knowledgeable and helpful and I have found documents here that have been central to presentations I have given. I can't imagine that there is enough space in the gallery space at Southbank to house these resources and don't believe these unique sources are available digitally. The staff & resources need to stay in London so they are accessible to the widest number of people.

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]]> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:25:42 UTC 9439076 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9439073?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:25:11 UTC 9439073 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9439070?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:24:55 UTC 9439070 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9439058?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:23:36 UTC 9439058 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9436135?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:08:02 UTC 9436135 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9435687?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:29:17 UTC 9435687 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9434911?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:56:46 UTC 9434911 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9428825?utm_medium=rss Whenever I am in London (1-2 times a year), I always visit the BFI library to do research or browse its offerings.

]]> Sat, 29 Jan 2011 06:23:39 UTC 9428825 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9428387?utm_medium=rss I think this valuable resource and service should be maintained

]]> Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:47:56 UTC 9428387 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9426433?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:07:43 UTC 9426433 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9424767?utm_medium=rss A central London location for BFI's printed collection is imperative for the users ease of access. This proposed move drastically reduces the BFI Library's usability.

]]> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:46:34 UTC 9424767 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9424058?utm_medium=rss As a film historian, and author of the only English-language monograph devoted to the director, Louis Malle, please please keep the BFI library in its current location with all its brilliant staff. Without their help and support, scholarship in the UK will decline. Film and media history are an important part of our future. Why does the BFI management appear to think otherwise?

]]> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:10:54 UTC 9424058 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9423663?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:21:43 UTC 9423663 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9422348?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:42:40 UTC 9422348 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9422143?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:11:07 UTC 9422143 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9422127?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:08:59 UTC 9422127 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9420997?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:48:16 UTC 9420997 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9420605?utm_medium=rss This drastic reduction of one of the BFI's core services seems deeply contrary to the objectives that the organisation receives public funding for. I suggest that economies be made in areas less essential to the public interest.

]]> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:55:13 UTC 9420605 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9416403?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:11:31 UTC 9416403 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9416326?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:58:11 UTC 9416326 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9416158?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:33:43 UTC 9416158 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9416132?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:30:49 UTC 9416132 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9415889?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:58:21 UTC 9415889 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9415443?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:02:09 UTC 9415443 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9415319?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:48:00 UTC 9415319 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9414934?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:00:28 UTC 9414934 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9414711?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:29:48 UTC 9414711 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9414708?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:28:59 UTC 9414708 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9414688?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:26:58 UTC 9414688 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9414605?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:17:00 UTC 9414605 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9414487?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:01:27 UTC 9414487 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9414415?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:51:54 UTC 9414415 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9414319?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:37:23 UTC 9414319 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9413869?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:42:07 UTC 9413869 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9412876?utm_medium=rss Seems to me that the BFI's main ambition is making this important collection more accessible which I applaud. The move to the South Bank will make these books far more available to a wider range of users and the research centre at Berkhampstead will facilitate faster in-depth research. We'll be able to get materials far quicker than the current wait for key primary materials. Increasing this browsability of materials will change - in a very good way - the nature of much research.

]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:36:37 UTC 9412876 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9412837?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:31:59 UTC 9412837 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9412448?utm_medium=rss BFI Library is a valuable resource, recognised nationally and internationally. Accessibility and location in the capital are essential. Perhaps this needs a more imaginative approach, e.g. becoming part of a shared archive/space as in a collaboration with a library or a museum (such as the British Library Newspapers or MOMI). It could be installed in a poorer part of London, as part of a package of improving and giving identity to a deprived London Borough.

]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:39:59 UTC 9412448 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9409476?utm_medium=rss this library is an invaluable resource to all our students (the university of the arts london) and we can only hope it will not be closed.

]]> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:30:10 UTC 9409476 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9409119?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:49:12 UTC 9409119 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9409015?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:33:49 UTC 9409015 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9408924?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:23:20 UTC 9408924 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9407651?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:30:51 UTC 9407651 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9407191?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:24:49 UTC 9407191 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9406509?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:47:04 UTC 9406509 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9406190?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:04:03 UTC 9406190 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9405914?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:18:09 UTC 9405914 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9405816?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:04:02 UTC 9405816 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9405802?utm_medium=rss The BFI Archives are the most valuable in the world and maintaining their integrity and ease of use is essential and in the public interest.

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